Terrorism risk perceptions and proximity to primary terrorist targets: How close is too close?

Human Ecology Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-70

  Woods, Joshua ^a   Ten Eyck, Toby A ^a   Kaplowitz, Stan A ^a   Shlapentokh, Vladimir ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Geography; Income; Risk perception; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649083023     PISSN: 10744827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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